What caused the exodus? There was a period where everybody was like, Pyro is the next big thing, kind of like a gold rush, and then that changed.

There have been repeated gold rushes throughout its history, as new jump points have been discovered, as new technology has allowed them to access more of the system's resources. But then those money rushes keep falling away, and there's never been any kind of permanent infrastructure. For a lot of reasons, because it's still a dangerous system with the flare star at the heart of it, it just kind of makes it not a nice place to live long term. So you have people come, take what they can, and then get out.

And then, in those lapsed periods in between, you have other elements moving into the system and setting up, because, again, it's sort of an unmonitored area. So you have the proliferation of these squatters and these outlaws and whatever who are sort of using the system, which again is kind of increasing the danger to people who are just trying to fly through or trying to earn a living or whatever.